LXXX. ASCLEPIADEJi. 231 



shaped corpuscles. Stigma conico-pyramidal, 5-angled. Fol- 

 licles smooth, tapering, divaricate. — Thes. Cap. t. 66. 



Small, branching herbs, with turnip-like fleshy roots, erect or rarely 

 climbing. Leaves opposite, glabrous or hairy. Flowers in cymes or fas- 

 cicles, terminal or axillary, purple or green. — 10-12 species in the Eastern 

 district and at I^atal. 



3. LEPTOPJETIA, Harv. 



Calyx short, 5-parted ; segments ovate. Corolla rotate, 

 5-parted, the segments lanceolate- oblong, slightly twisted 

 to the left ; throat with 5 subulate- filiform, very long and 

 slender, much-exserted scales. Filaments connate, free at 

 apex only ; anthers free from stigma, sagittate, cohering by 

 their triangular-acuminate, glabrous crests. Pollen-masses 

 granular (each grain of 4 pollen-granules), affixed to 5 deeply 

 2-fid corpuscles. Stigma depressed, with a conoidal umbo. 



A climber, with the habit and many of the characters of Fento})etia, 

 Dene., recently found by Mr. Grerrard near Natal. 



Tribe 2. Secamoxe^. (G-en. 4.) 



4. SECAMONE, E. Br. 



Calyx very short, 5-fid. Corolla rotate or subcampanulate, 

 deeply 5-parted, the lobes t^^'isted to the right, glabrous or 

 pubescent within. Corona 5-leaved, folioles laterally com- 

 pressed, decurrent below along the gynostege, free above, fal- 

 cate or ligulate, simple. Pollen-masses 20, erect, attached 

 by fours to each of the 5 small, fleshy corpuscles. Stigma 

 short or elongate, entire or absolutely 2-lobed. — DC. I*rod. 

 viii. 2?. 501. 



Decumbent or voluble, rarely suberect shrubs. Leaves opposite, coria- 

 ceous. Cymes or panicles axillary ; flowers often minute, not always. — 4 

 Cape species. Eastern and from Natal. 



Teibe 3. EuASCLEPiADEiB. (Gren. 5-29.) 

 5. ASTEPHANUS, E. Br. 



Calyx 5-parted ; sepals erect, acute. Corolla bell-shaped or 

 ovoid-bellshaped, the throat and tube without scales. Corona 

 0. Anthers membrane-tipped. Pollinia small, ovoid or 

 roundish, pendulous. Stigma elongate, mostly 2-fid, rarely 

 simple or depressed. Follicles smooth. — DC. Prod. viii. p. 

 507 ; Thes. Cap. t. 91. 



Voluble or decumbent undershrubs, with opposite glabrous leaves. Cymes 

 or \imbel3 interpetiolar ; flowers small, mostly pale. — 6 or 7 species, dis- 

 persed. 



